Kabbalah Library

282. The angel of death has no joy when he kills people. But because he sees that this is his master’s will, he shows himself gladly to do the Creator’s will, as it is written, “A stormy wind does His word.” And why does he go and dance gladly before the women? Indeed, it is in order to be seen before the king that he has contentment from the king’s will. But his contentment is in the eulogy of women, when he dances while listening to the eulogy.

283. Why does he slander a person above and mentions his iniquities, if he has no joy in killing a person? It is because he is old and foolish, and contemplates controlling the wind, and all his passion is for that. But in the end, he controls only what is his. The flesh is his, which is why it is written, “His labor shall return upon his own head,” as he does not enjoy his labor, that he incited below and slandered above.

284. He walks and wants to startle the world, and the water rises from the rest of the abysses and wants to cover the world. These are the tears, the two tears that the Creator sheds into the great sea. They boil more than any fire in the world, and through the power of their boiling, they freeze the water inside the frozen sea, since the red tear, called Sagdon, which falls into the abyss, freezes the water, as they awaken the control of the left, and the control of the left freezes the sea.

If the Creator, the middle line, did not imply through the screen of Hirik, by which He implies the blowing of one wind [Ruach/spirit] from the side of Abraham, Hassadim, from his pillar, the right line, to unite with the left, showing his illumination to the world, the world would not stand for even one moment.

285. When those tears fall into the sea, the sound is heard among the waves of the sea up to the Cave of Machpelah. From the sound of the growling that is heard there when they enter the sea, the first fathers awaken and rise, and think that the Creator wants to overturn the world. Finally, the voice comes out and tells them, “Do not fear, beloved holy ones. Thanks to you, the Creator remembers your children and wants to redeem them, and you will see.”

When the tears fall into the sea, they first fall to the abyss Sagdon. Then, the Yod comes out from the Avir [air] and the left line begins to control. At that time, a division occurs between right and left, as it is written, “Will rise to heaven, descend to the abysses.” When these tears fall into the sea, the sound of the waves of the sea is heard rising up to heaven out of the illumination of the left, and they fall back down to the abysses out of the illumination of the right.

From the sound of their growling, the first fathers awaken, Abraham and Isaac, as they are the Merkava for the two lines right and left. They rise and think that the Creator wants to overturn the world through the force of the division between right and left. Finally, the voice, which is the middle line, called the “voice of Jacob,” comes out and tells them “Do not fear,” for the voice makes peace between them and sustains the illumination of both of them. “By your merit, the Creator remembers your children,” since after He sustains the illumination of both of them, all the Mochin and all the redemptions are extended to Israel from the illumination of the two lines right and left.